The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-16
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.


The net gold in the Treasury increased from
$15s, 1888 OO5 July l. 1886, to $lS6,S756 500 July |,
1887.
1t is said that Secretary and Mrs. Whitney
have expended in charities in Washington within
a year the sum of about 100000.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent sill
yer medal to Miss Edith Clark, of San Francisco,
for saving schoolmate from drowning.
Secretary Fairchild has purchased fine resi-
dence for himself in Washington on the corner of
New Hampshire avenue and Twentieth street, for
$4,000.
Out of 56.134 chief officers in the civil service
of the Government it is said that President Cleve-
land has changed 1892 Of them since he has been
in Office.
Secretary Whitney has sold his country resi-
dence "Grassands," near Washington, for sum
very largely in advance of what he gave for it
year or two ago.
Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter of the Secretary
of the Interior, will be married on the 21st inst
to her cousin, Mr.. W. H. Lamar, rising young
lawyer of Washington.
Mrs. Cleveland has received from some ad.
mirer in Mexico o coat-of-arms of the United
States, worked on heavy cardboard in feathers
The feathers, most of them colored, are from many
different kinds of birds.
THE President has declined the invitation to
90 to st. Louis during the Grand Army encamp-
ment, owing to the action of some of the g. A. Il
men on the Southern battle-fag matter. His de-
cison is generally approved.
The total amount of Government bonds re-
deemed under the call which matured on the Is
inst. is $1S,O90,25O, leaving still outstanding o
that call 81 ,626,656. The total amount OF calico
bonds outstanding is $4,000, 45O. :,
The President and Mrs. Cleveland left Wash
| ington on Monday to attend the centennial cele
| bration of Clinton, New York. They will be ao
sent week or ten days and will visit MISS CleVe
| land and other relatives in that State.
| "A valuable collection, numbering more thai
| ten thousand objects, illustrating the habits an
accomplishments of prehistoric man in Wester
| Europe, was opened to public exhibition In IN
Smithsonian Institute few days ago.
Miss. Alice Underwood, daughter OF the lat lat
| clerk, for speaking lightly of the COMMISSIONS
and also Of the President. She says she is Re
publican, but denies the charges.
Quite number of department clerks hav
resigned lately and it is said that never before i
the history of the Government has the numbe
voluntary designations been so great. 1t is sal
that nearly all these clerks are civil service ap
pointees and that they quit the service to accep
better positions elsewhere.
A clerk in the War Department, who wa
doing large business under an assumed nam
as an office broker, has been discharged. He sen
circulars over the country offering to give 1nfor
nation that would assist those who received ther
in securing positions under the Government an
charging each one $40. He had an immense cor
respondence, and this led to his detection.
| Oscar J. Harvey, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, VIII
had been chief of the Horse Claims Division
the Treasury Department since June, 1885, ha
been caught in swindling the Government by pass
ing forged claims, his transactions in this lin
amounting to some $4,000. Harvey stood we
with the Secretary and had always borne goo
reputation He was Immediately discharged fror
his position and afterwards arrested.